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Rung Ho! A Novel
By Talbot Mundy
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By Talbot Mundy
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Howrah City bows the knee
More or less to masters three,
King, and Prince, and Siva.
Howrah City pays in pain
Taxes which the royal twain
Give to priests, to give again
(More or less) to Siva.
THAT was no time or place for any girl of twenty to be wandering unprotected. Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is no caste at all,-the hag with the flat breasts and wrinkled skin, who followed her dogwise, and was no more protection than a toothless dog,-knew it well...
More or less to masters three,
King, and Prince, and Siva.
Howrah City pays in pain
Taxes which the royal twain
Give to priests, to give again
(More or less) to Siva.
THAT was no time or place for any girl of twenty to be wandering unprotected. Rosemary McClean knew it; the old woman, of the sweeper caste, that is no caste at all,-the hag with the flat breasts and wrinkled skin, who followed her dogwise, and was no more protection than a toothless dog,-knew it well...
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